Delicious Destinations 2012

Norman Van Aken to be 2013 Celebrity Guest Chef

Delicious Destinations is thrilled to announce that renowned chef and culinary genius Norman Van Aken, owner of the award-winning restaurant NORMAN’S, will be the Celebrity Chef for Delicious Destinations 2013.

Norman Van Aken is the Director of Restaurants at the Miami Culinary Institute as well as the Chef-Owner of NORMAN’S at the Ritz-Carlton, Orlando.  He is known as “the founding father of New World Cuisine.” He introduced “Fusion” into the lexicon of modern cookery.  He is one of the only chefs in America to have won “The James Beard Award,” “The Robert Mondavi Award,” and “The Food Arts Silver Spoon.”   In 2006 he was honored as one of the ‘Founders of the New American Cuisine’, alongside Alice Waters, Paul Prudhomme, and Mark Miller in Madrid.

Chef Van Aken is the author of four cookbooks including the Julia Child/IACP nominated Random House cookbook, Norman’s New World Cuisine. His newest cookbook, My Key West Kitchen, features a forward by Charlie Trotter. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Charlie Trotter’s cookbooks, Australian Vogue, and many more. He has appeared on CNN, “Good Morning America,” “CBS This Morning,” “TVFN,” “Emeril Live,” and many other programs. He has cooked, consulted, written and lectured on “New World Cuisine” internationally. His culinary philosophy is “to create a marriage of the sensual and rustic with the classic and intellectual in a celebration of the various places we live.”

For more information on Delicious Destinations, visit our website at 

www.deliciousdestinationsjax.com

Thank you to our Sponsors and Chefs who made the 11th Anniversary Delicious Destinations such a success!

Founding Event Partners
Ponte Vedra Inn & Club Logo

Southern Wine and Spirits logo

Celebrity Chef by the Sea Luncheon Sponsor
Heekin Orthopedic logo

Sponsors’ Preview Reception Sponsor
Wells Fargo

In Partnership With
Miller Electric logo

THE PLAYERS logo

Presenting Sponsors

Acosta Sales and Marketing
Bank of America/Merrill Lynch
Key Buick

Connoisseur Sponsors
Media Works, Inc.
St. Vincent’s Spine and Brain Institute-Riverside Campus

Aficionado Sponsors
Brasfield and Gorrie
Brooks Rehabilitation
Brown Parker & DeMarinis Advertising
Intrepid Capital Funds
Johnson Development
Sight & Sound Productions
Walsh Family Foundation
 

Physician Sponsors
Borland Groover
Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgical Associates
Diagnostic Cardiology Associates
North Florida Anesthesia Consultants
North Florida Surgeons
 
Gourmet Sponsors
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Adeeb
Jeff and Jan Alley
Community Hospice
Duss, Kenney, Safer, Hampton & Joos, P.A.
Ed Morse Automotive Group
Tony & Christine Wanderon/Family First Dealer Services
Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman
LBA Certified Public Accountants
Dr. and Mrs. H. Lynn Norman
PSS World Medical, Inc.
St. Jude Medical Company
Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation
Willman Spine and Associates